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by b3orn 696 days ago
The code uses unaligned load and store instructions, so it should be possible to trigger memory access to unmapped addresses.
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Isn't the point of the "masked load" instruction discussed in the article to avoid that? https://stackoverflow.com/a/54530225
Unfortunately, AMD's masked AVX2 instructions reserve the right to fault even for masked-off elements :(